” Then Linda leaned up and kissed my jaw, wrapped her arms around me, and breathed softly in my ear. The result was that I fell asleep almost instan...ly, her warm body shielding me from the cool breeze of the air conditioner.I woke several hours later, only to realize that Linda wasn’t lying beside me any more. In a foggy daze, I tried to understand why she wasn’t there, and panic swept through me. I jumped out of the bed, searching, and calling her name. When there was no response, I went from. Jessica was waiting at the door for him. He started to carry in the packages, taking as many as he could each trip. Jessica held the door for him each time he neared the door. After the 4th trip she asked if he left anything in the store for other people to buy. He finally emptied the pickup bed. He started to carry in the presents from the front of the pickup and set them in a separate pile by the tree. When he had all of the presents in the house he walked by Jessica and whispered Merry. I slowly let the belt retract until I only needed to give it a firm tug, from above her shoulder, to be sure it was tight. Then I had one hand on the back of the seat as I used the other to lean if back far enough that the cold pack could stay on her face without her needing to hold it in place. As I was about to put it on her forehead our eyes locked again. I wasn’t touching her in at all when she let out a low, aroused moan as she tried to lift her hips off the seat. Only her grabbing my hair. She moved to the side and let Aluna take her place inthe middle."How?" Jim asked before he and Aluna both moaned as he entered her."Your job is to satisfy all of us," Indira said, continuing to ride hisright pelvic fin. "And your body is designed to make sure you can do yourjob."It was a job Jim gladly accepted. They and the other mers wouldn't fallasleep until the sun rose. Exhausted, but happy.Around midday, once they'd had a few hours of sleep, the mers went outfrom the grotto to gather.